Common Quotes
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition.
I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common
I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.
We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
